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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 723–748.
Published: 01 August 2010
... contact between people, have more subversive potential. The author analyzes rumors spread in the press and by word of mouth during October and November 1998 in East Java, Indonesia. Conspirators and ninjas were suspected of killing many alleged sorcerers and persecuting the traditionalist Muslim majority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1067–1069.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in Romanization—because these can be difficult to locate in the bibliography. Like “fake news” today, all six of Lu's categories were subject to cynical deployment. The government was not above decrying inconvenient opinions as “reckless portentous talk” and the like, even as it actively spread rumors of its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 789–817.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Nils Bubandt Abstract This paper analyzes the role of rumor as a mobilizing agent in communal violence. Taking as its point of departure a series of violent clashes in North Maluku in Indonesia during 1999 and 2000, it shows that rumor often took a written form. Outlining the contested origins...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (2): 199–213.
Published: 01 February 1962
.... Throughout the night confusion mounted. Hard-pressed Constabulary units from the provinces and Manila fought three engagements with Sakdalistas, picked up persistent reports of an impending attack on Manila, and heard recurrent and highly disturbing rumors that Japanese aircraft, equipped with arms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 780–781.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., and how they utilize their power to control and manipulate others. More specifically, Le's telling is concerned with how the cadre, those who administered the reeducation camps which were nothing more than thinly disguised forced labor camps used the psychological weaponry of rumor, hearsay, and gossip...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 214–216.
Published: 01 February 2000
... taxonomy of riots, Tambiah addresses the power of rumors, both to provoke violence and to perpetuate it. Though Gyanendra Pandey ("In Defense of the Fragment," Representations, 1992, 34, 42, 51) has called our attention to rumors and their role in collective violence, it is high time that someone gave them...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 811–812.
Published: 01 November 2006
... women suck up local sources of water from their graves in an effort to come back to life, and evil emperors search all under heaven for unmarried women to ll their harems (chap. 6). Ter Haar argues that stories and rumors like these always arose as expressions of some sort of social anxiety...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 February 1968
... submerged in rumors, lies, and emotional polemics. "Since no Indonesian was ideologically or emotionally uninvolved, no independent body like the Earl Warren Commission . . . could have been appointed to collect and assess the evidence. . . . Even professors of the University of Djakarta" (he means...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 437–438.
Published: 01 February 1968
.... New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1967.191 pp. $4.95. This writer has recognized the problem. The 30th September 1965 coup and its aftermath are not yet adequately explained, and have become submerged in rumors, lies, and emotional polemics. "Since no Indonesian was ideologically...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 615–637.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., and political science that investigate mass hysteria, witchcraft, magic, rumors, demonology, and ethnic conflict. The grease devil, variously referred to also as grease man, grease yakka, grease monster, grease demon, grease boothaya, grease peyi , or grease pootham , is a shadowy and ambiguous figure...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 753–757.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... Religious rhetoric was especially pronounced, too, in the pamphlets that animated and amplified communal violence in North Maluku, Indonesia, during 1999 and 2000. According to anthropologist Nils Bubandt , these pamphlets tapped into a culture of rumor and paranoia and helped bring about a dangerously...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 160–162.
Published: 01 February 2004
... A N S T U D I E S That the retold fable Ben yue (Flight to the moon) was Lu Xun s retaliation against a younger writer s (Gao Changfeng) poem articulating his resentment against Lu Xun for beating him to gain Xu s hand and that it echoes his decision, after much hesitation, to ignore the rumors...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 158–160.
Published: 01 February 2004
... to gain Xu s hand and that it echoes his decision, after much hesitation, to ignore the rumors and to join Xu Guangping in Canton (2002, p. 184) is quite interesting from the point of view of Lu Xun s biography. McDougall states twice that Zhou Zuoren s Japanese wife Nobuko may have been involved...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 614–615.
Published: 01 May 1981
... stands out. The breaking of lines, indention within the stanza, fast-moving rhythm, and diction are his own in many cases. One might hear the voice of another Kim Chi Ha. Special congratulations are due on the excellent rendering of "The Story of a Sound," one of the three sections of "Groundless Rumors...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 November 1985
... are transmitted. Most revealing is Guha's discussion of rumor as the prime mode of communication in a setting of rural unrest. Rumor by definition involves wide participation; in the process it furthers group cohesion, solidarity, and ultimately group consensus as it is passed from one person to another...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 665–668.
Published: 01 August 2010
... rumors about Ninja attacks in Indonesia to musical trends in Japan, and from the politics of art patronage to shifting marriage patterns in India. These are written by academics in a variety of fields, including history, anthropology, and political science. And they focus on disparate locations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 350–352.
Published: 01 February 2008
... recent history—and his relationship with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the one hand, and with the military regime, on the other, is especially instructive. However, it is the last essay in this section, Keiko Tosa's essay on rumors as a form of popular resistance, that illuminates how Burmese people on the ground...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 May 2012
... divisions among citizens. Another ubiquitous term since the summer of 2011 suggests this divisiveness: media refer to the impact on Tōhoku farmers whose crops are unmarketable because of the risk of contamination as “rumor damage” ( fūhyō higai 風評被害). “Rumor” here implies that the fear of contamination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 256–258.
Published: 01 February 1997
...; in some areas, such as Sunda (as described by Janet Hoskins) and also, I might add, Sarawak, famous headhunting leaders once vilified by colonial authorities as outlaws have been resurrected as local nationalist heroes. Most importantly perhaps are the rumors about headhunting which persist, recur...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1043–1050.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to online opinion and learn to handle it in a way that will not intensify social conflict. It proposes that publicizing information is a better approach than damming it. 3 As an example of mundane online expression, let us take the least likely candidate, “internet rumors.” Such “rumors” thrived...
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